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elicit judgment: source revealed?

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Why are the following sentences ungrammatical? [closed]

syntax semantics grammar morphology grammaticality

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Algorithms used for identifying the syllables in a Sanskrit word

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What is the syntactic structures of the ff [closed]

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english sociolinguistics

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some basic questions about morphological aspect

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How would've the Old Novgorodian language looked like?

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If adjectives denote functions of type <<e,t>,<e,t>>, then what denotation of be will allow adjectives to appear in predicative position?

adjectives formal-semantics type-theory

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Why is Hungarian considered a mostly agglutinative language?

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Why does /zd-/ require more effort even though both the consonants have the same voicing?

phonology phonetics acoustic-analysis voicing

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Turkish stem consonant alternation

phonology turkish

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Pronunciations of Arabic كرباج‎ ‘lash, whip' [closed]

arabic egyptian

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Did Proto-Indo-European put the adjective before or behind the noun?

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is there a /c/ vs. /k/ or /g/ vs /ɟ/ minimal pair in turkish

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All the recorded meanings of the Turkish noun yağmurluk [closed]

turkish

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What does Daniel actually mean? [closed]

etymology hebrew names

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What is the exact position of the tongue for [ n ] in these circumstances?

phonology phonetics ipa pronunciation nasals

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If you clumped all English words into synonyms, instead of word by word, how many unique concepts/definitions would there be in the English language?

terminology

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Why are palatalized consonants commonly accompanied by stretched lips?

palatalization production

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latin phrase-structure

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Does Gothic have /r/-umlaut and /x/-umlaut?

gothic umlaut

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Connection between “wiseguy” and the Cantonese slang 古惑仔

etymology american-english slang cantonese

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Did Common Brittonic use /ṽ/?

celtic fricatives nasalization

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